¶ … Anti-Aging Medicine? Include Abstract References scholarly This is a review of the article titled "Is There an Antiaging Medicine?" which was written by Robert N. Butler, Michael Fossel, S. Mitchell Harman, Christopher B. Heward, S. Jay Olshansky, Thomas T. Perls, David J. Rothman, Sheila M. Rothman, Huber R. Warner, Michael D. West, and Woodring E. Wright. The article was published in the volume 57A, issue no. 9 of the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences in the year 2002 from pages B333-B338. The journal is published by the Gerontological Society of America.

Anti-aging medicine refers to any form of intervention that is given to delay the development of pathology that depends on the person's age and any other changes that are related to age that are not necessarily diseases. All what are there is false claims and bogus remedies which are not known to work. Slowing down the process of aging of human beings would be a huge advantage since it would delay the onset of a huge variety of diseases that are related to aging. This would also lead to a betterment of the health of the aged person and longevity of life. There is, however, no evidence that there is any specific compound, whether artificial or natural, which slows down the aging process in humans, mice or rats Butler et al., 2002()

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It has also been seen to extend both the maximum life span and the life expectancy. Weindruch and Walford were the first people to document their research in this field Weindruch & Walford, 1988.
There have been further studies that have been conducted in this same topic which have confirmed the findings of Weindruch and Walford and they have suggested that caloric restriction alters biological aging Butler et al., 2002()

Caloric restriction has been known to extend life expectancy by between 20-40% depending on the stage at which it is started. If started in adulthood, it extends by 30-40% and if initiated in early middle age, it extends life expectancy by about 20%. Provided the diet maintains a good amount of essential nutrients, it is a low calorie diet and this delays the onset of age-dependent disabilities and diseases such as cognitive decline, cataracts, loss of muscle strength, cancer and immune senescence Butler et al., 2002()

Another documented way of slowing down the aging process is genetic manipulation. There are at least 15 distinct genetic manipulations which induce extension to the lives of human beings. These include fruit flies, mice, yeast and nematodes. Although many of the genes which being about this delay in aging have been found out and are known, it is not always…